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Parsons, but on the alleged ground of incompatibility of temper. She afterwards married the Earl of Upper Ossory, one of Sir Joshua's intimate friends.-ED.

1 A great fortune of the day, who | infatuation for the notorious Nancy married Lord Pomfret this year. "Before I have done I must tell you one of Charles Townshend's admirable bon-mots. Miss Draycote, the great fortune, is grown very fat. He says 'her tonnage has become equal to her poundage.' (See Walpole to Lord Hertford, February, 1764.)-ED.

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4 Dr. Drummond. Both Archbishops sat to him this year.

5 Now a Commissioner for Trade. 6 George, the brother of Lady Pembroke. There is a fine portrait of him at Blenheim, and another is in Lord Normanton's Gallery. He was now Privy Seal.

7 Afterwards Lord Camden. Reynolds's picture was painted for the Common Council, in commemoration of the judgment in the matter of general warrants. Another and better portrait is at the Moat, Lord Camden's.-Ed.

8 Goldsmith's "Little Comedy," afterwards Mrs. Bunbury.

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3 Very often through the summer. . She began her sittings in January as Miss Draycote; she now continues them as Lady Pomfret.-ED.

11 The actress. He painted her at least five times: au naturel in her cardinal- the picture of this year— as Roxalana, as Miss Prue, as Lady Teazle, and as the Comic Muse, now

There are blanks in June from at Knowle-full-length, with a mask the 16th to the 23rd.

in the hand, and a sly, sidelong

At this time Master General of humour in the expression. the Ordnance.

7 The beautiful wife of Col. Trapaud. One of his sweetest portraits.

8 Sunday, July 1st, Sir Joshua went to Blenheim. No entries until July 20th, on which day Miss Fisher sits. -ED.

George, now head of the administration. The picture is at Petworth.

12 Wife of the great capitalist, money-merchant, and banker.

13 From the 4th to the 11th there are no appointments. Again the 12th, 14th, and 15th, are blank.

14 She began her sittings as Miss St. John, but finishes them as Lady Coventry.

15 "Mem.-General Sandford's mare at Mr. Doggen's, in North Audley

10 On August 21st, an entry, "Mr. Reynolds has promised Colonel Keppel Street."

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CHAPTER IV.

1765-1768. ÆTAT. 42-45.

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Political aspect of the year- Burke's entry into public life-Barry - Goldsmith Notes contributed by Reynolds to Johnson's edition of Shakespear A paper by him, probably intended for the Idler - Pictures exhibited by Reynolds in 1765- Barry's commendation of him - His management of costume Exhibition of 1765 — West — Vanloo - Wilson - G. Hamilton -Zoffany - Mortimer Wright, of Derby - Dinner-engagements of the year-Sitters for 1765—(1766) Rockingham Administration — Burke's advance in public life - The Club - The Vicar of Wakefield'—'The Clandestine Marriage' - Mrs. Abingdon sitting to Reynolds - Isaac Barré Wilkes - Angelica Kauffman - Makes acquaintance with the Thrales At the play Pictures exhibited this year- West's 'Pylades and Orestes' The Misses Horneck - Dinner-engagements and sitters of the year-Fall of the Rockingham Administration (1767) Death of Lord Tavistock Contrasted character of Reynolds's sitters - ‘La Cecchina-The gay side of Reynolds's habits and associates - His political bent and its consequences Interview between the King and Dr. Johnson Reading of 'The Good-Natured Man' at Burke's - Mr. Bott-Portrait of the Speaker; his wig - Foote - Dinner-engagements of the year Quotations from letters by Burke-Portrait of Dr. Zachariah Mudge by Reynolds -Reynolds does not exhibit in 1767 - The Exhibition of that year- List of sitters for 1767 — (1768) The Good-Natured Man' produced - Portrait by him of Miss Ann Cholmondely- Dissensions in the Incorporated Society of Artists - Reynolds visits Paris - His diary on the road and at Paris Formation of the Royal Academy-Earlier attempts made to establish an Academy - Claims of the Royal Academy to the gratitude of the country Reynolds knighted by George III. His exertions to render the Exhibitions of the Academy attractive-Four Honorary Members of the Academy appointed at the suggestion of Reynolds — He suggests the annual dinner - List of sitters for 1768.

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[THIS year was prolific of public events: some-like the Colonial Stamp resolution, which was the tocsin of war in America-hardly noted at the moment; others,

1 Horace Walpole says, "There has been nothing of note in Parliament but one slight day on the American taxes, which Charles Townshend

supporting, received a pretty hearty thump from Barré." (To the Earl of Hertford, Feb. 12, 1765.)

-like the Regency Bill-of purely personal and temporary interest, but which changed the fates of ministers, and at the time convulsed the capital. The political history of the year is chiefly connected with the painter by the death of his steady patron the Duke of Cumberland, and the entrance into public life of one of his dearest, most intimate, and most valued friends, Edmund Burke. When the Grenville ministry fell, and the ineffectual combinations which followed its dissolution were closed by the establishment of the Rockingham administration, Burke, who had already established a reputation for singular capacity in public business, as well as for conversational and literary powers, was, in July, appointed private secretary to Lord Rockingham, on the introduction of his friend Fitzherbert, one of the new Commissioners for Trade. There was an understanding at the time that the private secretary should have a borough; but he did not take his seat for Wendover till the next year. But even in 1765 we know from his letters that he was a busy, unseen influence in the Cabinet. It is easy to conceive how the Club must have rejoiced in the opening of this opportunity to their most brilliant member, the one man who could contest the supremacy in talk with the great Johnson. Reynolds was, of all Burke's non-political associates, the man likeliest to be chosen as his confidant and adviser at this turning-point of his fortunes. Burke had, besides, made a claim about this time upon Reynolds's professional aid in favour of James Barry, an uncouth, enthusiastic, passionate young Irish painter, the son of a Cork coasting skipper, whom Burke had first befriended in Dublin and now invited to London.

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